Parties have promised smooth session: Somnath
NEW DELHI, NOV. 23. Political parties from across the spectrum today promised to put the past behind them and work together to ensure that the winter session of Parliament, starting on December 1, is a smooth affair. The promise was made at an ...

Opportunistic and unprincipled politics, says Jayalalithaa
This is the text of the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa's statement: "Thiru Karunanidhi has created a new Olympic record of sorts in somersaults with his total volte-face on the arrest of Sri Jayendra Saraswathi Swamigal by the ...

Arrest intimation served on Acharya in assault case
VELLORE, NOV. 23. The Kanchi Sankaracharya, Sri Jayendra Saraswathi, who is in the Central prison here in connection with a murder case, was today formally arrested in a case relating to the attack on S. Radhakrishnan, a former associate of the ...

Hearing on plea for CBI probe tomorrow
NEW DELHI, NOV. 23. The Supreme Court will hear on November 25 a public interest litigation petition filed by a former Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament seeking a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the arrest of the ...

U.S. sees terror threat to interests in India
NEW DELHI, NOV. 23. The United States said today that terrorists could be planning attacks on U.S. interests in New Delhi and Mumbai, an announcement posted on the American Embassy's website stressed. "Based on information received by the U.S. ...

Bomb scare
PATNA, NOV. 23. There was a bomb scare on an Indian Airlines Patna-Ranchi-New Delhi flight today. The pilot of IC 810 received a call shortly before take-off from here that a bomb had been planted in the plane. ...